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...experiencing freshman angst as a Proctor in Wigglesworth kept me from ever romanticizing or becoming nostalgic for my own undergraduate days. I don’t know if it was swabbing stairwells on Sunday mornings, or chasing squirrels that tumbled down Wigg B’s chimney with a broom, or locating freshmen who had decamped to follow the Grateful Dead, but I had had enough Harvard by the time I decided to move on. So, in 1987, I turned away from Harvard Square and did not look back—for 20 years...
...game winning streak. A 3-2 loss at Dartmouth in the final series of the season snapped the streak, but the team bounced back by winning the next two games to clinch the division and home-field advantage in the Ivy League Softball Championship, where it would lay the broom to the Quakers. —Staff writer Ted Kirby can be reached at tjkirby@fas.harvard.edu...
...Romney, meanwhile, has taken a whisk broom to his record in liberal Massachusetts, where he twice ran for statewide office as a pro-choice candidate dedicated to "full equality for America's gay and lesbian citizens." He now says he opposes Roe v. Wade and describes himself as "a champion of traditional marriage." In Massachusetts, he bucked the National Rifle Association by supporting the Brady Bill and an assault-weapons ban, boasting, "I don't line up with the NRA." Lately he brags that he has joined the gun-rights organization as a life member. He did that in August...
...Schveep for you, sir, please?" A street arab of nine or ten was tugging at his coat with one hand and with the other held a broom as tall as she. A patina of filth made her chestnut hair black, and she had no right...
...eternal foreigners." Smahi, a leftist until he joined Le Pen's party a decade ago, agrees: "The National Front" he says, "was the first place where, once I accepted my identity and responsibilities as a French citizen, I wasn't expected to do something with a broom in my hand, or a ball between my feet." It would be ironic - and a bitter indictment of France's mainstream political parties - if it took Jean-Marie Le Pen to get such a message across to voters who are yearning to hear...